Recently, my friend bought a cat, successfully quit the good habit of playing games with me after work, and it is said that he became good friends with his new female colleagues, successfully evolved from a single dog to an adult, and slowly distanced himself from me.
One day he asked me if I wanted a cat, and I thought about it for a long time and thought that spring was coming.
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The cat is a creature we have the opportunity to see as soon as we are born, and it became a global creature thousands of years ago and has since entered the human world. Of course, the social landscape at that time was not as complete as it is now, and the purpose of cat training was mainly practical, and no one would have thought that it would be so popular thousands of years later.
In 2018, the number of cat owners in China exceeded 20 million, the number of cat suckers exceeded 50 million, and the number of pet cats raised in important channels exceeded 67 million. Almost less than 28 people, there are people who have cats. Of course, this number is only a statistical result, like the friends I know, it is not uncommon to have more than three cats at home.
The complete domestication of the cat was a turning point in its fate, and it has since been recorded in Egypt, China, India, and ancient Babylon, whether it is in the four ancient civilizations. Cat owners don't go back so far when discussing their breeds, but understanding that history can help us understand cat habits more intuitively.
Cats belong to the cat subfamily. Cats are under the subfamily Cats, and under the Cats are cats of various breeds. Cats are lucky animals, they are kept as pets, do not worry too much about food and clothing, and do not hide in the ravines like many close relatives.
Cats' close relatives are big cats such as rabbit grandchildren, ocelots, lynx cats, and lynxes under the cat subfamily.
Take the vicious cat, for example, this creature inhabits the wilderness, mountains, deserts, and bushes, and is a natural killer with agility, a flexible body, strong jumping power, and is a natural killer. But it has a solitary personality, likes to be alone, has a strong sense of territory, and has a clear tendency to attack. These characteristics have some similarities with the cats in our house.
Next I'll tell you that the cat can catch birds and attack gazelles and rodents. Domestic cats certainly have a tendency to catch rats, but during the long period of domestication, many cats lost interest in rodent critters. However, in some online videos, we can see the picture of cats catching birds.
I briefly owned an orange cat. During an afternoon break, I was basking in the sun at the door and witnessed the image of the little orange cat catching birds. Cats are curious creatures, which has something to do with their killer nature.
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It was probably around 9.4 million years ago that the cat subfamily officially appeared. Together with the saber-toothed tiger subfamily, the leopard subfamily supports the inheritance of the three cat families. The common ancestor of the three cats is a creature called a false cat.
The fake cat appeared about 20 million years ago, and it was not until 8 million years ago that the branch of the cat family was more refined, and then it really withdrew from the historical stage. 20 million years ago, when everything on the earth was flourishing, a bird in the sky opened its wings and may be 7 meters long, and many underwater creatures can grow to 5 meters high. Antarctica, on the other hand, is dry all year round and is not covered by ice and snow, and natural disasters are far fewer than now, so the growing environment is better than now.
The size of the fake cat is equivalent to the size of a mountain lion, and the adult can reach more than 1.5 meters. This was not a general shape in the environment at the time. The reason why it has been able to reproduce smoothly for 12 million years, of course, has a special way of survival, but because of its age, I have never found a description of its living habits by scientists.
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The fake cat is not the ancestor of the cat, and on top of it is a creature called the original red panda. The original red panda is an early cat, which is the ancestor of cats, so it is also known as the first cat. The original red panda appeared 25 million years ago, and its size is about the same size as today's domestic cat.
Based on its body structure and skeletal structure, the researchers deduced that it probably lived mainly on trees. If according to this line of thinking, the domestic cat should have inherited most of the genes of the original red panda, at least not as large as lions and tigers, and even abandoned the ability to climb trees.
Image source 丨Unsplash photography 丨ramche
From the original red panda 25 million years ago to the current domestic pet cat, this branch has entered the human world and become a companion living around us.
Different regions also have different perceptions of cats. Some people think that cats bring disasters, some people think that cats can be psychic, and some people think that cats are like dogs, just serving people's daily lives. No matter what kind of cognition, it has slowly derived a new direction: pets.
Image source 丨Unsplash photography 丨elwonder93
Cats as pets do not need to possess multiple skills. It lay there motionless, and some people thought it was beautiful. This is the pet, the companion who is always good in people's subjective world.
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